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Section I: Social Aspects of Digital Gaming 1. Introduction: Multiplayer Gaming as Social Media Entertainment Thorsten Quandt and Sonja Kröger 2. Design Principles: Use and Misuse Richard A. Bartle 3. Multiplayer Gaming Around the World Thorsten Quandt, Vivian Chen, Jan Van Looy and Frans Mäyrä Section II: Social Interaction in Virtual Worlds 4. Methodology of Measuring Social Immersion in Online Role-playing Games: Exemplary Experimental Research on Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds Benny Liebold, Daniel Pietschmann, Georg Valtin and Peter Ohler 5. Happy Together? A Gender-comparative Study into Social Practices in Digital Gaming Jan Van Looy and Lotte Vermeulen 6. Player-Centered Game Design: Expectations and Perceptions of Social Interaction in RPG and FPS as Predictors of Rich Game Experience Christina Schumann 7. Analyzing AI in NPCs: An Analysis of Twelve Games Magnus Johansson, Björn Straat, Harko Verhagen and Henrik Warpefelt Section III: Online Gaming 8. Party Animal or Dinner for One: Are Online Gamers Socially Inept? Rachel V. Kowert and Julian A. Oldmeadow 9. "There Is No Place Like Home": The Potential of Commercial Online Gaming Platforms to Become Third Places Jeffrey Wimmer 10. It’s a Quest(ion) of Timing Torill Elvira Mortensen 11. Social Interaction Design in MMOs Nelson Zagalo and Aníbal Gonçalves Section IV: Co-located and Console Gaming 12. Get together: Console Playing as a Group Experience Sonja Kröger and Thorsten Quandt 13. Family and Games - Digital Game Playing in the Social Context of the Family Lina Eklund 14. Playing to Win?: Measuring the Correlation between Biometric Responses and Social Interaction in Co-located Social Gaming Steve Bromley, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Graham McAllister and Jonathan Napier 15. Anything but Speechless – Face-to-Face-Communication during Co-located Gaming Judith Ackermann Section V: Risks and Challenges of Social Gaming 16. An Overview of Online Gaming Addiction Mark D. Griffiths 17. Living in a Virtual World? An Excessive Gamer Typology Emese Domahidi and Thorsten Quandt 18. Friendship Quality Matters for Multiplayer Gamers: The Role of Online and Real-life Friendship Quality in the Relationship between Game Addiction and Psychological Well-being in a Sample of Adolescent Online Gamers Antonius J. van Rooij, Tim M. Schoenmakers , Regina J.J.M. van den Eijnden, Ad A. Vermulst and Dike van de Mheen 19. Isolated Violence, Isolated Players, Isolated Aggression: The Social Realism of Experimental Research on Digital Games and Aggression Malte Elson and Johannes Breuer 20. Self-Discrepancy and MMORPGs: Testing the Moderating Effects of Avatar: Identification and Pathological Gaming in World of Warcraft Jan Van Looy, Cédric Courtois and Melanie De Vocht
